Dynamics of eternal inflation on the landscape admits description in terms of the Martin-Siggia-Rose (MSR) effective field theory that is in one-to-one correspondence with vacuum dynamics equations. On those sectors of the landscape, where transport properties of the probability measure for eternal inflation are important, renormalization group fixed points of the MSR effective action determine...

BACKGROUND Laccases are multicopper oxidases with high potential for environmental and industrial applications. Low-cost laccase production could be achieved by solid state fermentation on agro-industrial by-products. METHODS A number of agro-industrial solid wastes were tested as support-substrate for laccase production by Coriolopsis gallica under solid-state fermentation (SSF) conditions. ...

DNA sequences (~3 kb long) extending from the intergenic spacer 1 (IGS1) region to the 18S gene were obtained for isolates of Armillaria ostoyae, Armillaria calvescens, Armillaria gallica, and Armillaria sinapina. Additional investigation of 16 A. ostoyae, 11 Armillaria gemina, 21 A. calvescens, 18 A. gallica, and 15 A. sinapina isolates produced 117 sequences spanning the 3’ end of the IGS1 th...

Methylobacterium sp. strain ARG-1 was isolated from a cell culture of hyphal tips of the white-rot fungus Armillaria gallica We describe here the sequencing, assembly, and annotation of its genome, confirming the presence of genes involved in methylotrophy. This is the first genome announcement of a strain of Methylobacterium associated with A. gallica.

G.A. Gellert1; V. Hill2; K. Bruner1; G. Maciaz1; L. Saucedo1; L. Catzoela1; R. Ramirez1; W.J. Jacobs1; P. Nguyen3; L. Patel4; S.L. Webster1 1CHRISTUS Health, Health Informatics, San Antonio, TX, United States; 2Baylor College of Medicine, Pediatrics, San Antonio, TX, United States; 3CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Westover Hills Hospital, San Antonio, TX, United States; 4CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Medical Center,...

The use of fluorescent indicators such as fura-2 (Grynkiewicz et al., 1985) to measure the cytosolic free calcium activity in retinal rods is complicated by the rods' sensitivity both to the fluorescence and to the light that excites it. By stimulating fluorescence from large numbers of rods in whole, loaded retinas and averaging repeated measurements, however, we have been able to monitor chan...

Phylogenetic and genetic relationships among 10 North American Armillaria species were analysed using sequence data from ribosomal DNA (rDNA), including intergenic spacer (IGS-1), internal transcribed spacers with associated 5.8S (ITS + 5.8S), and nuclear large subunit rDNA (nLSU), and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers. Based on rDNA sequence data, the nLSU region is less va...